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It seems to be what people wanted!

It is not what he campaigned on, nor what the majority of voters wanted. Not once did I hear “we are going to shut down clinical trials so your loved ones die.” I did hear a lot about grocery prices, which certainly aren’t going down because of this.

AFAIK there was information about Project 2025, so this was not secret was it? And lot of people still support this as you can see it even here (as this thread is already flagged).

There are enough people who will reactively flag anything that touches the lines between politics and everything else, usually under a misunderstanding of the guidelines, that it's hard to infer intent behind a flag kill.

Project 2025 was getting grassroots attention & was becoming rabidly unpopular.

Trump denied any affiliation, claimed he didn't know these people. (Even though many are folks he's already worked with.) The media accepted that unquestionablably & regurgitated Trump's obvious lies.

Then frankly you weren’t paying attention. This was all laid out in Project 2025 and there were plentiful ties between it and Trump despite his deflection.

>>> He's rapidly trending into dictator territory

>> It seems to be what people wanted!

> It is not what he campaigned on […]

"Trump’s vow to only be a dictator on ‘day one’ follows growing worry over his authoritarian rhetoric"

* https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritar...

"Trump reiterates he wants to be a ‘dictator’ for ‘one day’ at Wisconsin rally":

* https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-re...

It’s been a lot longer than a day.

The thing about dictators is once you give them power, you can't take it back, even if they promise they want it just for one day.

Give a sociopathic malignantly narcissistic chaos monkey an inch and they'll take...well...everything.

Can you find even one actual Trump voter that says they regret voting for him? All the supporters I know still seem pleased with their choice.

Being a dictator is absolutely what he campaigned on. He literally said it, and signalled it in every way possible. Those that didn't see that coming either weren't paying attention or wanted it to happen.

Then you weren't paying attention. There were plenty of clues that this is precisely what was going to happen. There were many of us sounding the alarms and too many people scoffed. If you want to see what comes next, take an in depth look at project 2025. It's all there. It's the plan. It was always the plan.

I'm astonished that anyone believed things would unfold any differently than they have. We were told exactly what will happen by everyone in power. And the kissing of the King's ring before inauguration should have been a clue.

Shit is going to get awful. It's already to the point that, when I'm on reddit, I can't distinguish between r/news and r/collapse headlines.

Trump did in fact explicitly say he “hadn’t heard of Project 2025” repeatedly during his campaign. Bullshit obviously, and his supporters were warned many times of this, but I still think it’s fair to say this specific set of actions isn’t what he explicitly campaigned on.

Folks think I'm saying "I didn't expect this" when what I'm saying is "Donald Trump didn't campaign on it." That's relevant and people need to be reminded of it every single day.

But I mean, it was part of the campaign. You can't be forgiven for not being able to read between the lines. The campaign went like this:

- Kamala: He's going to do Project 2025.

- Trump: No I'm not ;)

- You: Well he said he wasn't going to do it, he lied!

You missed the wink and the fingers crossed behind his back, but the rest of us picked up on it. Sorry you weren't paying attention to that, but Kamala pointed it out to you, so you can't say you weren't warned.

Dictatorship is literally what he campaigned on.

This is the most disheartening part of it all. I have immense respect for the ideals that formed the United States, but I'm increasingly in doubt about the actual implementation.

“A republic, if you can keep it.”

--Benjamin Franklin's response to Elizabeth Willing Powel's question: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"

Most people that voted for him either weren't paying attention to the clips you and I saw of what he said he wanted to do, or didn't believe him.

People in the right-wing media ecosystem are not presented with anything that might threaten their image of their politicians.

And people in the right-wing media ecosystem RABIDLY sequester themselves away from any possible source of contrary information.

Goddamn, like imagine if Hilary Clinton made a social media company called "Truth Social"!

But there always seems to be double standards

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